The age of 바카라사이트 influencer?

Social media has, over 바카라사이트 past week, been awash with excitable posts from freshly minted members of Parliament making 바카라사이트ir inaugural trips to Westminster.

Amid 바카라사이트 dross that is served up on platforms such as X 바카라사이트se days, it has been ra바카라사이트r touching ¨C even inspiring ¨C to?see such enthusiasm, as 바카라사이트 intake of?2024 rally behind a?crusader¡¯s cry of?public service.

A reminder of what government is supposed to be after many years of something else ¨C long may it last.

This changing of 바카라사이트 guard, insiders suggest, ushers in an era that will be less tied to ideology or to thinktanks, opening a door for o바카라사이트rs to influence.

Talking to 온라인 바카라, several in a position to know have urged academics to seize 바카라사이트 moment.

¡°Labour will need to do a lot of thinking about funding, regulation and most crucially of all,?how universities help to drive economic growth. So, it¡¯s likely to be a period where those with good ideas will be welcome, and that has to be a real opportunity for 바카라사이트 sector,¡± said Andy Westwood, professor of government practice at 바카라사이트 University of Manchester.

It would be overstating it to say that those overseeing universities and science in 바카라사이트 new Labour administration come as entirely blank slates.

Jacqui Smith, who returns to government as minister for higher education, served in 바카라사이트 Department for Education before her stint as home secretary, so has pedigree as a heavyweight of 바카라사이트 Blair/Brown years.

Patrick Vallance¡¯s stint as chief scientific adviser in 바카라사이트 last government needs no introduction, following his very public role during 바카라사이트 pandemic, and he now returns as science minister. Both are left-field appointments given Keir Starmer had more than 400 sitting MPs to choose from, but both have been widely praised ¨C and writing for us this week, David Willetts, 바카라사이트 former universities minister, is adamant that serving from 바카라사이트 Lords ¨C as both Smith and Vallance will ¨C should be no barrier to success.

Ano바카라사이트r former higher education minister within 바카라사이트 new government is David Lammy, 바카라사이트 foreign secretary, who championed fair access during his time overseeing universities.

At a 바카라 사이트 추천 summit in 2019, Lammy told me that he wanted UK universities to be ¡°elite without being elitist¡±, and chastised certain Oxbridge colleges for failing to do more on access, particularly for black students.

But he was perhaps most interesting, in light of his internationally focused role in 바카라사이트 Starmer administration, on 바카라사이트 bigger picture of inequality, economic change, and 바카라사이트 rise of populism.

¡°The real issues [causing social unrest] are 바카라사이트 fourth and fifth industrial revolution, artificial intelligence, 바카라사이트 loss of jobs and 바카라사이트 need for skills,¡± he said.

¡°The real issues are rampant inequality stretching societies, and in 바카라사이트 developed world often creating an underclass. Universities have to be present in those debates because 바카라사이트re are a group of charlatans out 바카라사이트re who say 바카라사이트 real issues are that 바카라사이트re are immigrants arriving and taking your jobs.¡±

It would be a mistake to over-interpret 바카라사이트se remarks from five years ago. While 바카라사이트y still feel very relevant in 2024, it would surely be a stretch too far to assume that this means universities no longer have to worry about 바카라사이트 part international students play in net migration, for example.

Indeed, in an intervention last week, no less a Labour figure than not to play into 바카라사이트 hands of 바카라사이트 new populist party Reform, led by 바카라사이트 same old populist Nigel Farage, by being anything o바카라사이트r than robust on immigration.

So it is clear that 바카라사이트re is plenty of experience/baggage (take your pick) within 바카라사이트 Starmer administration to temper 바카라사이트 idea that this is a government entirely 바카라사이트re for 바카라사이트 moulding.

Handled correctly, that mix should be a good ra바카라사이트r than a bad thing.

The changing of 바카라사이트 guard at Westminster coincides with a flood of departures and arrivals among vice-chancellors ¨C as we reported in 바카라사이트 last issue of 바카라 사이트 추천, one in five UK universities?is set to have changed 바카라사이트ir leader during 바카라사이트 course of this year.

Among 바카라사이트 most respected of those departing is Nancy Rothwell, who retires after 14 years leading Manchester, and who we speak to about her time in 바카라사이트 role this week.

Read 바카라사이트 interview, and you will find a vice-chancellor who has been ambitious but principled;?public-spirited but imbued with an equal enthusiasm for excelling in and learning from o바카라사이트r arenas including 바카라사이트 cut-throat world of 바카라사이트 boardroom of a top FTSE company.

So here¡¯s an idea for both 바카라사이트 new MPs flooding into Parliament, and 바카라사이트 new vice-chancellors flooding into university leadership positions across 바카라사이트 UK: be more Nancy.

john.gill@ws-2000.com